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Well I don't know where you are writing from but I understand it is part of America's culture. It's all about accomplishments: what have you done in life, how far have you gone. The american dream is to make it "big."
This unfortunately does happen quite often.....but it's also a very often met misunderstanding. People work their @sses off to make sure their loved ones have everything they need later on in life. However, some angsty teen comes along screaming "you never hugged me" then goes on a killing spree . But that's quite rare
Because most people are materialistic...and haven't learned what important in life yet....It's immaturity....and selfishness.....People are more important than things.....
Hmmm. A bit of a generalisation, but then quite true in many cases as well. One thing I have noticed is, in Australia at least, there can be a tendency of working hard to "express" how you feel for family. You want them safe, secure, happy and sadly we, due to social standards and such equate this with working. 9 to 5, put your kids through the best schools, keep up appearances, live the American/Australian/English etc dream. If your not earning your not living. If your not working your not helping you kids do better then you, be more then you.
Sad, but generally there seems to be so much of that around, which isn't a good thing in my view.
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Last edited by Imperial_Samura on Aug 21st, 2005 at 03:13 PM
What a very romantic notion is involved with the opening of this post!
Whilst it might be very comforting for those without money to imagine that those who concentrate on its accumulation will be ultimately miserable...
... it is a naive view. Plenty of very rich people can very easily simply equate their happiness with their material possessions and be damned to everyone else!
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Re: why do people live this way
To some extent is pure simple greed. I've heard of cases in which people will sacrifice their loves one for a shot of fortune. I'm a bit greedy myself so there are times in which I might cross the line. But so far I haven't so I'm feeling good.
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Aug 21st, 2005 05:16 AM
. But that's quite rare 
